Delaval Cupid & Psyche

Cupid and Psyche

Pierre Louis Delaval (1790-?)

Early 19th Century

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CUPID & PSYCHE

PIERRE LOUIS DELAVAL (1790-?)

EARLY 19th CENTURY

Oil Painting on Canvas

Size: 19.3 x 25.0 in; 48.9 x 63.5 cm

Signed: Recto, lower left

The present work by an anonymous French artist is an oil on canvas after Antonio Canova's classic marble statue Cupid & Psyche. The love affair between Cupid and Psyche is one of the best known classical myths, recounted in the Latin novel The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Many Neoclassical paintings and sculptures derived inspiration from the story. Cupid, lover of the mortal Psyche, forbids her to cast eyes upon him and visits her only at night. Disobeying him, Psyche holds a light over his sleeping body, for which she is punished by Aphrodite. The scene conveyed by this modello is of Psyche being rescued in Cupid's embrace.

Creator: Pierre Louis Delaval (1790-?)

Creation Year: Early 19th Century

Dimensions: 19.3 x 25.0 in

Medium: Oil Painting on Canvas

Movement/Style: Neoclassicism

Period: 1800-1850

Condition: Very Good